Thread: Interchangeable barreled muzzle loader

I have a 50cal muzzle loader which has been my baby for the last 10 years i have won numerous black powder shoots with her

Anyway recently i had the absolute pleasure of meeting doug @homebrew.357 who if you have read his post's on here you will know that he's very talented on the tools and has bult a barrel rifleing machine
Doug very kindly gifted me a 45 cal muzzle loader barrel he had built
That i was planning to build a rifle arround but an idea came to me (why not just fit the barrel into my existing rifle and make it a quick change barrel?) a quick pm to doug with the idea and I got a reply "easy"

So a visit and a few measurements later a drawing for a new breach plug and bolster to suit my rifle was born
Doug worked his magic and dropped the new breach plug off yesterday
Doug built it very slightly over size and yesterday arvo was me smoking the part fileing the contact points smokeing and fileing again to insurer a snug fit
After a couple of hours work I got this

Dougs barrel perfectly fitted to my un modified action
(Its missing its barrel retaining pin for now hence tape)

Now the new breach plug is raw steel and needs blueing so I thought id redo the hole barrel so it matches
So this afternoon I started with this


I then wet sanded with 320gt wet and dry to this

Then 600gt wet sand

Then 1000gt and finally 0000 steel wool wet sand/polish


Ready for blue tomorrow
Cheers
Darryn